Qwel-If It Aint Been In A Pawn Shop Then It Cant Play The Blues-CD-FLAC-2001-THEVOiD

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 Info   
     Artist  | Qwel
     Title   | If It Ain't Been In A Pawn Shop, Then It Can't Play The Blues
     Genre   | Hip-Hop                              Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 66:54
     Label   | Galapagos4                           Store   | 2001
     Catalog | G4CD0009                             Rip     | 2020
     Bitrate | 816 kbps                             Size    | 406.87 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Quest For Fire (Prod. Meaty Ogre)                           3:01
     02. Underachiever (Prod. White Lightning)                       4:49
     03. Stress.com (Prod. Meaty Ogre)                               3:31
     04. Proof 101 (Prod. Meaty Ogre)                                2:51
     05. Hall Of Mirrors (Prod. Meaty Ogre)                          1:18
     06. The Highest Commitment (Prod. Meaty Ogre)                   3:19
     07. If It Ain't Been In A Pawn Shop, Then It Can't Play The     3:47
         Blues (Prod. White Lightning)
     08. Good Friday (Government Music) (Prod. White Lightning)      5:30
     09. Harriet Tubman (Prod. White Lightning)                      3:23
     10. Art Of War (Feat. Robust) (Prod. White Lightning)           4:16
     11. Meaty's Lament (Prod. Meaty Ogre)                           2:44
     12. Brick Walls (Prod. Meaty Ogre)                              3:23
     13. Plexiglass (Prod. White Lightning)                          2:14
     14. $19.99 A.D. (Feat. Robust) (Prod. White Lightning)          4:24
     15. My Ex-Girlfriend Plays Keyboard For Tom Petty's Band        3:35
         (Prod. White Lightning)
     16. Chicago Barbeque (Prod. White Lightning)                   14:49
 Notes  
     Co-founder of Chicago-based underground rap crew the Typical Cats, Qwel
     constantly blurred the line between written prose and rap lyrics upon each
     successive album during the 2000s. With a voice uninflected in tone, the
     cerebral MC aggressively delivers each word, structuring his verses into
     multi-syllable rhyme schemes.
     His style was nurtured from being an avid participant of the Midwest's
     (Chicago in particular) rhyme-battling scene over the course of the late
     '90s and early 2000s, which is how he met rap colleagues Qwazaar, Denizen
     Kane, and DJ Natural to form Typical Cats.
     Qwel's first major recording was the Typical Cats' self-titled debut,
     released in 2001 by independent record company Galapagos4. That experience
     initiated a close relationship with the label which Qwel continued to build
     as Galapagos4 became a fixture within Chicago's underground hip-hop
     community, even after it moved its operations to California.
     Qwel's solo debut, If It Ain't Been in the Pawn Shop, Then It Can't Play
     the Blues, also arrived in 2001. It introduced him as a complex rapper
     prone to constructing intricate concepts -- a sharp contrast to his
     rhyme-battling days.
     Best illustrating Qwel's propensity for lyrical exploration and
     experimentation were the series of collaborative albums conceptualizing
     together the four seasons and the four horsemen of the apocalypse (from the
     Bible's Book of Revelation). 2004's The Harvest, a collaboration with
     fellow Chicagoan and Glue beatsmith Maker, was the first in the series. The
     second in the series (and his fifth official effort), Freezer Burner,
     featured the colder, lo-fi production of labelmate Meaty Ogre and was
     released in 2006.

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17M	01-qwel-quest_for_fire_(prod._meaty_ogre)-thevoid.flac
27M	02-qwel-underachiever_(prod._white_lightning)-thevoid.flac
21M	03-qwel-stress.com_(prod._meaty_ogre)-thevoid.flac
18M	04-qwel-proof_101_(prod._meaty_ogre)-thevoid.flac
7.4M	05-qwel-hall_of_mirrors_(prod._meaty_ogre)-thevoid.flac
20M	06-qwel-the_highest_commitment_(prod._meaty_ogre)-thevoid.flac
21M	07-qwel-if_it_aint_been_in_a_pawn_shop_then_it_cant_play_the_blues_(prod._white_lightning)-thevoid.flac
32M	08-qwel-good_friday_(government_music)_(prod._white_lightning)-thevoid.flac
19M	09-qwel-harriet_tubman_(prod._white_lightning)-thevoid.flac
28M	10-qwel-art_of_war_(feat._robust)_(prod._white_lightning)-thevoid.flac
17M	11-qwel-meatys_lament_(prod._meaty_ogre)-thevoid.flac
22M	12-qwel-brick_walls_(prod._meaty_ogre)-thevoid.flac
13M	13-qwel-plexiglass_(prod._white_lightning)-thevoid.flac
28M	14-qwel-19.99_a.d._(feat._robust)_(prod._white_lightning)-thevoid.flac
22M	15-qwel-my_ex-girlfriend_plays_keyboard_for_tom_pettys_band_(prod._white_lightning)-thevoid.flac
82M	16-qwel-chicago_barbeque_(prod._white_lightning)-thevoid.flac
389M	total